json-flatten, now with format documentation 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/simonw/json-flatten?tab=readme-ov-file#json-flattening-format">json-flatten, now with format documentatio [...]
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Docker images using uv's python 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://mkennedy.codes/posts/python-docker-images-using-uv-s-new-python-features/">Docker images using uv's python</a>< [...]
Datasette 1.0a16 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/changelog.html#a16-2024-09-05">Datasette 1.0a16</a></strong></p> This latest release foc [...]
New improved commit messages for scrape-hacker-news-by-domain 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/simonw/scrape-hacker-news-by-domain/issues/6">New improved commit messages for scrape-hacker-news-by-doma [...]
Calling LLMs from client-side JavaScript, converting PDFs to HTML + weeknotes 🔗
<p>I've been having a bunch of fun taking advantage of CORS-enabled LLM APIs to build client-side JavaScript applications that access LLMs direct [...]
OAuth from First Principles 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://stack-auth.com/blog/oauth-from-first-principles">OAuth from First Principles</a></strong></p> Rare example of an OAu [...]
Qwen2-VL: To See the World More Clearly 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2-vl/">Qwen2-VL: To See the World More Clearly</a></strong></p> Qwen is Alibaba Cloud's or [...]
Quoting anjor 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://twitter.com/__anjor/status/1830972847759729124"><p><code>history | tail -n 2000 | llm -s "Write aliases for my zshrc ba [...]
Python Developers Survey 2023 Results 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://lp.jetbrains.com/python-developers-survey-2023/">Python Developers Survey 2023 Results</a></strong></p> The seventh [...]
Why I Still Use Python Virtual Environments in Docker 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://hynek.me/articles/docker-virtualenv/">Why I Still Use Python Virtual Environments in Docker</a></strong></p> Hynek S [...]
Anatomy of a Textual User Interface 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://textual.textualize.io/blog/2024/09/15/anatomy-of-a-textual-user-interface/">Anatomy of a Textual User Interface</a>< [...]
uvtrick 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/koaning/uvtrick">uvtrick</a></strong></p> This "fun party trick" by Vincent D. Warmerdam is absolutely br [...]
Quoting Ted Chiang 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/why-ai-isnt-going-to-make-art"><p>Art is notoriously hard to define, and so [...]
OpenAI says ChatGPT usage has doubled since last year 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/08/29/openai-chatgpt-200-million-weekly-active-users">OpenAI says ChatGPT usage has doubled since [...]
Quoting Forrest Brazeal 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/the-death-of-the-modified-developer"><p>I think that AI has killed, or is about to kill [...]
Quoting Andreas Giammarchi 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://twitter.com/webreflection/status/1829556513469321564"><p>whenever you do this: <code>el.innerHTML += HTML</code></p> <p [...]
llm-claude-3 0.4.1 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm-claude-3/releases/tag/0.4.1">llm-claude-3 0.4.1</a></strong></p> New minor release of my <a hr [...]
Leader Election With S3 Conditional Writes 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://www.morling.dev/blog/leader-election-with-s3-conditional-writes/">Leader Election With S3 Conditional Writes</a></st [...]
OpenAI: Improve file search result relevance with chunk ranking 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://platform.openai.com/docs/assistants/tools/file-search/improve-file-search-result-relevance-with-chunk-ranking">OpenA [...]
Quoting Magic AI 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://magic.dev/blog/100m-token-context-windows"><p>We have recently trained our first 100M token context model: LTM-2-mini. [...]
Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Interactive Tutorial 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/anthropics/courses/tree/master/prompt_engineering_interactive_tutorial">Anthropic's Prompt Engineeri [...]
Elasticsearch is open source, again 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-is-open-source-again">Elasticsearch is open source, again</a></strong></p> Three a [...]
How Anthropic built Artifacts 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-anthropic-built-artifacts">How Anthropic built Artifacts</a></strong></p> Ger [...]
Quoting D. Richard Hipp 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/2d2720461b82f2fd"><p>My goal is to keep SQLite relevant and viable through the year 2050. Th [...]
Cerebras Inference: AI at Instant Speed 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://cerebras.ai/blog/introducing-cerebras-inference-ai-at-instant-speed">Cerebras Inference: AI at Instant Speed</a></st [...]
System prompt for val.town/townie 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://gist.github.com/simonw/d8cc934ad76b3bba82127937d45dc719">System prompt for val.town/townie</a></strong></p> <a href= [...]
Debate over “open source AI” term brings new push to formalize definition 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/08/debate-over-open-source-ai-term-brings-new-push-to-formalize-definiti [...]
Gemini Chat App 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/gemini-chat">Gemini Chat App</a></strong></p> Google <a href="https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/s [...]
NousResearch/DisTrO 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/NousResearch/DisTrO">NousResearch/DisTrO</a></strong></p> DisTrO stands for Distributed Training Over-The [...]
Quoting John Gruber 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/08/26/welch-reimagine-pixel-9"><p>Everyone alive today has grown up in a world where you [...]